Cosimo de' Medici Quote

There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.


Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici in: Jean Lucas-Dubreton (1961). Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici. p. 58


There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.

There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.

There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.

There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.